Hello everyone:
I took Lucas to the vet yesterday and he had a fever of 104. The vet thinks he has some sort of an infection, his eyes look infected, his nose looks sore and he keeps licking it. This is not something new for me, Lucas has had this before he started having food allergies, this is what made our first vet prescribe the prednisolone in the first place. The vet told us it was discoid lupus, his symptoms were the same he is having now, plus his little toes got dark and infected and they bled. Also he kept having high fevers for no reason.
Right now Lucas looks so sick. this is not related to the food allergies at all, he has them, but this is something else and I feel it is what our first vet said, the lupus.
The vet we have now doesnt believe Lucas has Lupus, he says this is happening because of the food allergies or because he is FIV+, so he only prescribed an antibiotic (orbax), but I know by experience that when Lucas is having a crisis like this I have to give him a higher dose of prednisolone plus the antibiotic, that is what helps, so that is what I'm doing, I'm giving him the orbax and 5 mg of pred, I will lower the pred when he gets better.
The holistic vet that was helping me with Lucas also believes Lucas has an autoimmune disease that could be lupus.
I just wish I could take Lucas to the vet who firts diagnosed him with lupus, but he moved to the US.
I checked his temp minutes ago and he still had a fever of 103.5. I have to keep checking him. I will update later on.
This all happened because I kept trying to wean him off the pred, he really needs it.
Tammy
I took Lucas to the vet yesterday and he had a fever of 104. The vet thinks he has some sort of an infection, his eyes look infected, his nose looks sore and he keeps licking it. This is not something new for me, Lucas has had this before he started having food allergies, this is what made our first vet prescribe the prednisolone in the first place. The vet told us it was discoid lupus, his symptoms were the same he is having now, plus his little toes got dark and infected and they bled. Also he kept having high fevers for no reason.
Right now Lucas looks so sick. this is not related to the food allergies at all, he has them, but this is something else and I feel it is what our first vet said, the lupus.
The vet we have now doesnt believe Lucas has Lupus, he says this is happening because of the food allergies or because he is FIV+, so he only prescribed an antibiotic (orbax), but I know by experience that when Lucas is having a crisis like this I have to give him a higher dose of prednisolone plus the antibiotic, that is what helps, so that is what I'm doing, I'm giving him the orbax and 5 mg of pred, I will lower the pred when he gets better.
The holistic vet that was helping me with Lucas also believes Lucas has an autoimmune disease that could be lupus.
I just wish I could take Lucas to the vet who firts diagnosed him with lupus, but he moved to the US.
I checked his temp minutes ago and he still had a fever of 103.5. I have to keep checking him. I will update later on.
This all happened because I kept trying to wean him off the pred, he really needs it.
Tammy